## Why
Environment tool availability and selectors should remain stable as selected environments become ready.
## What changed
- Keep configured environment tools advertised even when no execution environment is ready, and derive `environment_id` selectors from all selected environments.
- Return guidance to wait when an environment is unavailable, while preserving errors for unknown environment IDs. Require a usable primary environment for `write_stdin`.
- Always include `shell` and `login` in the `exec_command` schema and mark `stable_environment_tools` as removed.
## Testing
Update integration tests to expect environment tools with empty or starting environments, and remove explicit feature opt-ins from affected scenarios.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1590c1b5be16a39e4a370663c552b881602545b5
## Why
Fixed argument limits truncated recorded tool calls even when their metadata fit within the available message budget.
## What changed
- Remove the 8 KiB per-call and 32 KiB per-output argument limits for direct calls and Code Mode.
- Preserve full recorded arguments while retaining message metadata budgets, pending-call limits, and the direct metadata retention limit.
- Rename the normalization helper to `normalize_executed_tool_call_completeness`; it now only clears completeness when calls or tool names were lost.
## Testing
Update regression coverage for large arguments, escaped inputs, reserved-key wrappers, and argument and result metadata preservation across Code Mode waits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 8c199ccf39191d5d44eef02d28b1773654735b43
## Why
Truncating recorded arguments does not lose the call inventory. Clearing `tool_calls_complete` in that case incorrectly treats retained calls and tool names as incomplete.
## What changed
Define `tool_calls_complete` as completeness of the ordered call inventory, independent of recorded arguments. Preserve it for direct tool outputs and Code Mode cells when argument limits or message budgets truncate arguments, including across later waits. Continue clearing completeness when calls are omitted or tool names are truncated.
## Testing
Update protocol, recorder, and integration tests to verify completeness survives argument truncation and message budgeting. Add coverage confirming that omitted calls and truncated tool names still clear completeness.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1534dbfabbd1291b840dd6fb6738ed51bcd4c0c4
## What changed
Add the default-off `stable_environment_tools` feature flag. When enabled, advertise environment-backed tools before an executor is ready, keep environment selectors stable as readiness changes, and include the `shell` and `login` parameters. Execution still requires a usable environment and its policy.
When disabled, expose environment-backed tools only when a usable environment exists, derive selectors from usable environments, and condition shell parameters on the execution configuration. Restore tool-specific unavailable-environment errors and skip the environment readiness check for `write_stdin`.
## Testing
Parameterize the empty-environment tool availability test for both flag states, check that commands require a ready transport by default, and explicitly opt tests that rely on stable tool exposure into the feature.
GitOrigin-RevId: 68c6240fb3adf85d7f9b407804d4823c515abfdc
## Why
Environment readiness previously changed which tools and command parameters were advertised to the model, even when the selected environments stayed the same.
## What changed
- Keep enabled command, patch, image, and permission tools exposed when environments are absent, starting, or failed.
- Return a consistent message asking the model to wait when no usable execution environment is available, while preserving distinct errors for unknown environment IDs.
- Derive environment selectors from all selected environments rather than only ready ones.
- Always advertise `exec_command`'s `shell` and `login` parameters while continuing to enforce login policy at execution time.
## Testing
Expand integration coverage for empty, pending, failed, ready, and recovered environments, including stable command parameters and login-policy rejection. Update subagent and skill-catalog snapshots, with separate Windows expectations.
GitOrigin-RevId: bb08084066896a9f14b3b568c081c3eaac981db7
## What changed
- Make `LocalThreadStore` default to paginated history while retaining explicit legacy mode.
- Explicitly use paginated history for Guardian review sessions and allow in-memory stores to create paginated threads.
- Rename full-history resume, fork, and subagent helpers to identify them as legacy APIs, and document the paginated alternatives.
- Reject `thread/revert` for ephemeral threads and prevent the TUI from replaying or attaching to ephemeral agent threads.
## Testing
Add coverage for preserving the default and explicitly selected history modes and conversation context across restart, and for retaining context after rejected ephemeral reverts. Extend Guardian checkpoint coverage across both history modes and verify that saved reviews use paginated history.
GitOrigin-RevId: 870239eb3757018159ee4f230a009c97d38ac5b7
## Why
Direct tool-call records need to stay associated with the invocation that produced each output, including when call IDs are reused. Completeness must describe the recorded call inventory, independently of tool success.
## What changed
- Attach direct-call records to outputs before they enter history, and set `tool_calls_complete` when the invocation's arguments are fully recorded.
- Bound pending recordings and retained metadata, release reservations on completion or cancellation, and invalidate pending records when capture is disabled.
- Apply request budgets to direct metadata and strip it from inference and compaction inputs when capture is disabled.
- Remove executed-call metadata from app-server raw response notifications and exclude its size from Guardian history retention budgets.
- Track call IDs that bypass dispatch so their reuse cannot incorrectly establish Code Mode completeness.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for direct-call attribution, malformed calls, metadata budgets, cancellation, configuration changes, compaction, notification filtering, and Guardian context isolation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2ebd39c7f141d04788736491495109841656b4c0
## Why
Persisted turn-start events lack the originating root turn ID, so they cannot directly associate child turns with the root turn that initiated them.
## What changed
- Add optional `root_turn_id` to `TurnStartedEvent`. Use the inherited root turn ID when available, otherwise the turn's own ID.
- Centralize turn-start emission for regular turns, shell commands, and manual compaction so they record attribution consistently.
- Carry attribution into `ThreadHistoryTurnChange` when processing turn-start events and retain it through completion in the history builder.
- Keep older records compatible by defaulting missing attribution to `None`.
## Testing
Add coverage for root and child turn attribution, persistence when tool collisions fail a turn before sampling, history change propagation, and deserialization of older turn-start records.
GitOrigin-RevId: 54a80b828ca7d1c4c19f13d468c01d052e1b9130
## What changed
- Cover the default, explicitly enabled, and explicitly disabled states of
`tools.update_plan.enabled`.
- Verify prompt tool lists remain consistent across requests, including when
custom base and developer instructions are configured.
- Explicitly enable `update_plan` in existing fixtures that depend on the tool.
GitOrigin-RevId: 3be279cb5195dfc5892c2c8ff6a1461fac879309
## Why
Managed configuration can disable resumable unified execution while leaving shell tools enabled. This should not remove command execution entirely or grant access to retained processes.
## What changed
- Keep `exec_command` available in completion-only mode when `unified_exec` is disabled.
- Remove `tty`, `yield_time_ms`, `session_id`, and `write_stdin` from that mode, and add a `timeout_ms` argument.
- Terminate one-shot commands on timeout or turn cancellation, reporting timed-out commands with exit code 124.
## Testing
Added integration coverage for tool availability, timeout cleanup, and interruption cleanup under managed configuration.
GitOrigin-RevId: a382d34f922fdc4ba52889272c6db985abd42e47
## What changed
- Remove the legacy `shell_command` handler and runtime, leaving `exec_command`
and `write_stdin` as the shell execution tools.
- Treat legacy `shell_command` model metadata as `unified_exec`, and normalize
legacy user opt-outs so they do not disable command execution. Managed feature
requirements and `shell_tool` can still disable it.
- Preserve shell approvals, sandboxing, zsh-fork support, and output truncation
through the unified execution path.
## Testing
- Cover legacy configuration and model-metadata compatibility.
- Exercise unified shell execution, approvals, truncation, and `apply_patch`
serialization across the app-server and core test suites.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5c2fd6164fc3519cdae4944cb9db276b8467311c
## What changed
- Add `TurnInputRequest` and typed submission results for atomically starting a turn, steering the active turn, or declining input with a specific reason.
- Expose `start_or_steer_turn`, `start_turn_if_idle`, and `steer_turn` on `CodexThread`, and migrate Core consumers to these APIs.
- Make app-server `turn/start` steer an active regular turn and return that turn's ID. Reject incompatible output schemas and non-steerable turns without applying settings or enqueueing input.
## Testing
- Cover concurrent start-or-steer submissions, accepted and rejected settings updates, output-schema compatibility, idle-start rejection, and app-server steering.
GitOrigin-RevId: dd9b5528d76ec650c019e97af420bc13190ea86a
## What changed
- Add fractional Unix creation times to locally authored user, developer, agent, and tool-output items when they enter durable conversation history.
- Preserve any creation time already supplied with an item across subsequent requests, remote compaction, and resumed history.
## Testing
- Cover timestamp assignment and preservation in session, client, tool, agent-spawn, and remote-compaction tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 431d1770b9746005c808bc0a43953845166d68ad
## What changed
- Treat different non-empty descriptions for the same tool namespace as a
collision when `error_on_tool_collisions` is enabled, including deferred
tools.
- Continue allowing multiple tools to share a namespace when their descriptions
match or are empty.
- Preserve the first non-empty namespace description when strict collision
checking is disabled.
## Testing
- Cover strict collisions across direct and deferred tools, valid shared
namespaces, relaxed description merging, and failure before model sampling.
GitOrigin-RevId: 788a2ae0eccb64c97995af7a208d9abb79edf2d0
## What changed
- Track the first duplicate effective tool name while assembling the tool registry, including collisions introduced by external tools, code mode, and tool search.
- When `[features.tool_registry].error_on_tool_collisions` is enabled, fail the turn with a `duplicate tool: <namespace>.<name>` error before sending a model request.
- Continue allowing identical tool names in different namespaces, and preserve the existing collision behavior when strict checking is disabled.
## Testing
- Cover registry collision tracking, strict tool planning across tool sources, namespace isolation, failure before sampling, and pre-sampling compaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4cf83538fb513cec0b9c8b567780caaaadd3243d
## Why
Thread settings can update the approval policy after a turn context is created.
Keeping a separate copy on `TurnContext` could leave tool approval checks using
the previous policy.
## What changed
- Remove the duplicated approval-policy field from `TurnContext`.
- Resolve the policy through the turn's current configuration everywhere it is
needed, including tool execution, Guardian routing, MCP handling, and
permission requests.
## Testing
- Update the shell escalation test to apply a thread-level policy override and
verify that the next turn rejects an escalation using the updated policy.
GitOrigin-RevId: e5966ba08f179d53fd76871ad904762958c0f5ea
## What changed
- Reattach recorded `executed_tool_calls` metadata when an output is included in a subsequent prompt.
- Bound retained metadata to 32 KiB, prioritizing recent calls and reporting omitted calls in truncation metadata.
- Drop retained entries after their corresponding outputs leave the prompt history.
## Testing
- Cover metadata replay, cleanup after compaction, bounded retained history, and propagation through later tool requests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1c23a26123be3b7ad51c61f4ad522139b71bb773
## What changed
- Add the opt-in `executed_tool_call_metadata` feature to record model-attempted direct and code-mode tool calls.
- Attach recorded names and arguments to the matching tool output in the next Responses request, preserving the metadata across sampling retries.
- Bound pending calls and argument sizes, and emit truncation metadata when limits are exceeded.
## Testing
- Cover disabled-by-default behavior, namespaced and nested calls, blocked or failed attempts, retry handling, and recorder limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5ce917b73e797b0f6904d46477b9d2cf8ea71bf2
## What changed
- Assign IDs to client-created response items in every session, including streamed items, forked history, compaction results, and non-OpenAI provider requests.
- Preserve server-provided IDs and stable generated IDs across persisted and resumed conversations while continuing to omit unprefixed server IDs from outbound requests.
- Retire `features.item_ids` as a configurable feature. Existing configuration and CLI toggles remain accepted as compatibility no-ops.
## Testing
- Cover default ID assignment, persistence and resume behavior, remote compaction, provider requests, WebSocket requests, and removed-feature compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7a09e2d07d2606c2ef1e8e2283d36cb555557eae
## Why
Default read-only protections for project metadata should apply when paths such
as `.git`, `.agents`, and `.codex` exist, without causing sandbox setup to
materialize missing paths as ACL targets.
## What changed
- Add an optional `missing_path_behavior` to filesystem sandbox entries and
mark default project-metadata protections with `skip`.
- Preserve the behavior through permission transforms and exec/MCP protocol
serialization while keeping existing path wire variants stable.
- Ignore skip-missing entries when projecting configuration or Windows sandbox
overrides, while retaining explicit metadata carveouts.
## Testing
- Cover protocol round trips for path and special-path entries.
- Verify default metadata protections and Windows explicit carveout handling.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6df13dadacdd131c44aab9f15a967c81051355c1
## Summary
- Preserve the optional namespace on custom tool calls during response
deserialization and app-server replay.
- Use the namespaced tool identifier for streaming argument handling and
tool dispatch.
- Regenerate app-server protocol schemas.
- Add regression tests covering namespace serialization and routing.
## Testing
- Ran affected protocol and app-server test suites.
- Ran the full core test suite; two load-sensitive timing tests passed
when rerun individually.
- Ran Clippy and formatting checks.
- Verified with a local end-to-end app-server replay that the namespace
is preserved through the complete request/response flow.
The workspace denies `clippy::expect_used` in production. Although
`clippy.toml` allows `expect` in tests, Bazel Clippy compiles
integration-test helper code in a way that does not receive that
exemption, which encouraged verbose `unwrap_or_else(... panic!(...))`
and equivalent `match`/`let else` forms.
This allows `clippy::expect_used` once at each integration-test crate
root (including aggregated suites and test-support libraries), then
replaces manual panic-based Result and Option unwraps with
`expect`/`expect_err`. Standalone `tests/*.rs` files remain their own
crate roots. Intentional assertion and unexpected-variant panics remain
unchanged, and the production `expect_used = "deny"` lint remains in
place.
The cleanup is mechanical and net-negative in line count.
## Why
Thread cwd and environment selections are a single logical setting in
core: updating one without the other can silently desynchronize the
next-turn execution context. This change makes that relationship
explicit in the internal thread settings flow while preserving the
existing app-server public API shape.
## What changed
- Moved the cwd/environment pair through internal
`ThreadSettingsOverrides.environment_settings` instead of a top-level
internal `cwd` field.
- Kept `thread/settings/update` public params unchanged, with app-server
translating top-level `cwd` into the paired internal settings shape.
- Moved `Op::UserInput` environment overrides into thread settings so
user turns and settings updates use the same core path.
- Updated core, app-server, MCP, memories, sample, and test callsites to
construct the paired settings shape.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
- Local test run starting after PR creation.
## Why
Filesystem permission profiles used `none` for deny-read entries, which
is less direct than the action the entry actually represents. This
change makes `deny` the canonical filesystem permission spelling while
preserving compatibility for older configs that still send `none`.
## What changed
- rename `FileSystemAccessMode::None` to `Deny`
- serialize and generate schemas with `deny` as the canonical value
- retain `none` only as a legacy input alias for temporary config
compatibility
- update filesystem glob diagnostics and regression coverage to use the
canonical spelling
- refresh config and app-server schema fixtures to match the new wire
shape
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-core config_toml_deserializes_permission_profiles
--lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
read_write_glob_patterns_still_reject_non_subpath_globs --lib`
Earlier in the session, a broad `cargo test -p codex-core` run reached
unrelated pre-existing failures in timing/snapshot/git-info tests under
this environment; the targeted surfaces touched by this PR passed
cleanly.
## Summary
Removes the feature since this is effectively on by default in all cases
where we should use it, or can be configured via models.json.
## Testing
- [x] unit tests pass
## Why
Recent session history showed no active use of the raw `shell`,
`local_shell`, or `container.exec` execution surfaces. Keeping those
handlers/specs wired into core leaves duplicate shell execution paths
alongside the supported `shell_command` and unified exec tools.
## What changed
- Removed the raw `shell` handler/spec and its `ShellToolCallParams`
protocol helper.
- Removed the legacy `local_shell` and `container.exec` handler/spec
plumbing while preserving persisted-history compatibility for old
response items.
- Normalized model/config `default` and `local` shell selections to
`shell_command`.
- Pruned tests that exercised removed raw-shell/local-shell/apply-patch
variants and kept coverage on `shell_command`, unified exec, and
freeform `apply_patch`.
## Verification
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `cargo test -p codex-tools`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::shell`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::spec`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::router`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
active_call_preserves_triggering_command_context`
- `cargo test -p codex-core guardian_tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_serialization`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all apply_patch_cli`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all shell_command_`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all local_shell`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all otel::`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all hooks::`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-tools`
## Why
`UnavailableDummyTools` kept synthetic placeholder tools alive for
historical tool calls whose backing MCP tool was no longer available.
That path adds stale model-visible tool specs and special routing at the
point where unavailable MCP calls should use ordinary current-tool
handling. This removes the runtime backfill instead of preserving a
second compatibility lane.
## Is it safe to remove?
The unavailable tools were added in #17853 after a CS issue when a
previously-called MCP tool failed to load and was omitted from the CS
spec. Now that we have tool search, I think this is resolved:
- API merges tools from previous TST output into effective tool set so
theyre always in CS spec
- if an MCP tool surfaced by TST later becomes unavailable, the model
can still call it and it will just return model-visible error
- both TST output and function call output are dropped on compaction so
model will not remember old calls to MCP post compaction
## What changed
- Delete unavailable-tool collection, placeholder handler, router/spec
plumbing, and obsolete placeholder coverage.
- Keep `features.unavailable_dummy_tools` as a removed no-op feature
tombstone so existing configs still parse cleanly.
- Add an integration-style `tool_search` regression test showing that a
deferred MCP tool surfaced through `tool_search` still routes through
MCP and returns a model-visible tool-call error rather than `unsupported
call`.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core tool_search`
## Why
`apply_patch` is now a freeform/custom tool. Keeping the old
JSON/function-style registration and parsing path left another way for
models and tests to invoke `apply_patch`, which made the tool surface
harder to reason about.
## What changed
- Removed the `ApplyPatchToolType::Function` variant, JSON `apply_patch`
spec, and handler support for function payloads.
- Kept `apply_patch_tool_type = freeform` as the supported model
metadata path, including Bedrock catalog metadata.
- Migrated `apply_patch` tests and SSE fixtures to custom/freeform tool
calls.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider`
- `cargo test -p codex-core tools::handlers::apply_patch --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_tool_executes_and_emits_patch_events`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --test all
apply_patch_reports_parse_diagnostics`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec test_apply_patch_tool`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
- `just fix -p codex-tools -p codex-protocol -p codex-model-provider -p
codex-exec`
## Summary
- enable `apply_patch_freeform` by default in the feature registry
## Why
- make the freeform `apply_patch` tool available by default when model
metadata does not explicitly opt into another mode
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- did not run tests
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## Summary
This continues the test-side migration away from `SandboxPolicy` by
removing the remaining legacy policy setup in
`core/tests/suite/tools.rs`. The affected test was already modeling a
profile-backed filesystem policy with a deny-read glob, so configuring
the test through `Permissions::set_permission_profile()` is a better
match for the behavior being exercised.
## Changes
- Drops the `SandboxPolicy` import from `core/tests/suite/tools.rs`.
- Configures the glob deny-read shell test directly with a
`PermissionProfile` instead of creating a legacy read-only policy first.
- Submits the test turn with the session permission profile so the
deny-read glob remains active for the command under test.
## Verification
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
## Summary
- Replace legacy sandbox config setup in delegate and telemetry tests
with direct `PermissionProfile` configuration.
- Move no-sandbox and read-only test turns in `tools.rs`,
`code_mode.rs`, `user_shell_cmd.rs`, and `model_visible_layout.rs` from
legacy `SandboxPolicy` values to `PermissionProfile` helpers, while
leaving the deny-glob read-only compatibility case for a later targeted
cleanup.
- Use `PermissionProfile::read_only()` where tests need managed
read-only behavior and `PermissionProfile::Disabled` where they
intentionally need no sandbox.
- Reduce `SandboxPolicy` references in `codex-rs/core/tests` from 27
files after #20013 to 22 files.
## Testing
- `cargo check -p codex-core --tests`
- `just fmt`
## Why
After #19391, `PermissionProfile` and the split filesystem/network
policies could still be stored in parallel. That creates drift risk: a
profile can preserve deny globs, external enforcement, or split
filesystem entries while a cached projection silently loses those
details. This PR makes the profile the runtime source and derives
compatibility views from it.
## What Changed
- Removes stored filesystem/network sandbox projections from
`Permissions` and `SessionConfiguration`; their accessors now derive
from the canonical `PermissionProfile`.
- Derives legacy `SandboxPolicy` snapshots from profiles only where an
older API still needs that field.
- Updates MCP connection and elicitation state to track
`PermissionProfile` instead of `SandboxPolicy` for auto-approval
decisions.
- Adds semantic filesystem-policy comparison so cwd changes can preserve
richer profiles while still recognizing equivalent legacy projections
independent of entry ordering.
- Updates config/session tests to assert profile-derived projections
instead of parallel stored fields.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-core direct_write_roots`
- `cargo test -p codex-core runtime_roots_to_legacy_projection`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server
requested_permissions_trust_project_uses_permission_profile_intent`
---
[//]: # (BEGIN SAPLING FOOTER)
Stack created with [Sapling](https://sapling-scm.com). Best reviewed
with [ReviewStack](https://reviewstack.dev/openai/codex/pull/19392).
* #19395
* #19394
* #19393
* __->__ #19392
## Summary
- add experimental turn/start.environments params for per-turn
environment id + cwd selections
- pass selections through core protocol ops and resolve them with
EnvironmentManager before TurnContext creation
- treat omitted selections as default behavior, empty selections as no
environment, and non-empty selections as first environment/cwd as the
turn primary
## Testing
- ran `just fmt`
- ran `just write-app-server-schema`
- not run: unit tests for this stacked PR
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- Replace the active models-manager catalog with the deleted core
catalog contents.
- Replace stale hardcoded test model slugs with current bundled model
slugs.
- Keep this as a stacked change on top of the cleanup PR.
## Summary
- adds macOS Seatbelt deny rules for unreadable glob patterns
- expands unreadable glob matches on Linux and masks them in bwrap,
including canonical symlink targets
- keeps Linux glob expansion robust when `rg` is unavailable in minimal
or Bazel test environments
- adds sandbox integration coverage that runs `shell` and `exec_command`
with a `**/*.env = none` policy and verifies the secret contents do not
reach the model
## Linux glob expansion
```text
Prefer: rg --files --hidden --no-ignore --glob <pattern> -- <search-root>
Fallback: internal globset walker when rg is not installed
Failure: any other rg failure aborts sandbox construction
```
```
[permissions.workspace.filesystem]
glob_scan_max_depth = 2
[permissions.workspace.filesystem.":project_roots"]
"**/*.env" = "none"
```
This keeps the common path fast without making sandbox construction
depend on an ambient `rg` binary. If `rg` is present but fails for
another reason, the sandbox setup fails closed instead of silently
omitting deny-read masks.
## Platform support
- macOS: subprocess sandbox enforcement is handled by Seatbelt regex
deny rules
- Linux: subprocess sandbox enforcement is handled by expanding existing
glob matches and masking them in bwrap
- Windows: policy/config/direct-tool glob support is already on `main`
from #15979; Windows subprocess sandbox paths continue to fail closed
when unreadable split filesystem carveouts require runtime enforcement,
rather than silently running unsandboxed
## Stack
1. #15979 - merged: cross-platform glob deny-read
policy/config/direct-tool support for macOS, Linux, and Windows
2. This PR - macOS/Linux subprocess sandbox enforcement plus Windows
fail-closed clarification
3. #17740 - managed deny-read requirements
## Verification
- Added integration coverage for `shell` and `exec_command` glob
deny-read enforcement
- `cargo check -p codex-sandboxing -p codex-linux-sandbox --tests`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --test all`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-linux-sandbox -p codex-sandboxing --tests`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
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## Summary
- Add an MCP server environment setting with local as the default.
- Thread the default through config serialization, schema generation,
and existing config fixtures.
## Stack
```text
o #18027 [8/8] Fail exec client operations after disconnect
│
o #18025 [7/8] Cover MCP stdio tests with executor placement
│
o #18089 [6/8] Wire remote MCP stdio through executor
│
o #18088 [5/8] Add executor process transport for MCP stdio
│
o #18087 [4/8] Abstract MCP stdio server launching
│
o #18020 [3/8] Add pushed exec process events
│
o #18086 [2/8] Support piped stdin in exec process API
│
@ #18085 [1/8] Add MCP server environment config
│
o main
```
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
`argument-comment-lint` was green in CI even though the repo still had
many uncommented literal arguments. The main gap was target coverage:
the repo wrapper did not force Cargo to inspect test-only call sites, so
examples like the `latest_session_lookup_params(true, ...)` tests in
`codex-rs/tui_app_server/src/lib.rs` never entered the blocking CI path.
This change cleans up the existing backlog, makes the default repo lint
path cover all Cargo targets, and starts rolling that stricter CI
enforcement out on the platform where it is currently validated.
## What changed
- mechanically fixed existing `argument-comment-lint` violations across
the `codex-rs` workspace, including tests, examples, and benches
- updated `tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh` and
`tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh` so non-`--fix` runs default to
`--all-targets` unless the caller explicitly narrows the target set
- fixed both wrappers so forwarded cargo arguments after `--` are
preserved with a single separator
- documented the new default behavior in
`tools/argument-comment-lint/README.md`
- updated `rust-ci` so the macOS lint lane keeps the plain wrapper
invocation and therefore enforces `--all-targets`, while Linux and
Windows temporarily pass `-- --lib --bins`
That temporary CI split keeps the stricter all-targets check where it is
already cleaned up, while leaving room to finish the remaining Linux-
and Windows-specific target-gated cleanup before enabling
`--all-targets` on those runners. The Linux and Windows failures on the
intermediate revision were caused by the wrapper forwarding bug, not by
additional lint findings in those lanes.
## Validation
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh`
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --lib --bins`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test` in `tools/argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`
## Follow-up
- Clean up remaining Linux-only target-gated callsites, then switch the
Linux lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Clean up remaining Windows-only target-gated callsites, then switch
the Windows lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Split the feature system into a new `codex-features` crate.
- Cut `codex-core` and workspace consumers over to the new config and
warning APIs.
Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <219906144+aibrahim-oai@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Why
Enterprises can already constrain approvals, sandboxing, and web search
through `requirements.toml` and MDM, but feature flags were still only
configurable as managed defaults. That meant an enterprise could suggest
feature values, but it could not actually pin them.
This change closes that gap and makes enterprise feature requirements
behave like the other constrained settings. The effective feature set
now stays consistent with enterprise requirements during config load,
when config writes are validated, and when runtime code mutates feature
flags later in the session.
It also tightens the runtime API for managed features. `ManagedFeatures`
now follows the same constraint-oriented shape as `Constrained<T>`
instead of exposing panic-prone mutation helpers, and production code
can no longer construct it through an unconstrained `From<Features>`
path.
The PR also hardens the `compact_resume_fork` integration coverage on
Windows. After the feature-management changes,
`compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` was
overflowing the libtest/Tokio thread stacks on Windows, so the test now
uses an explicit larger-stack harness as a pragmatic mitigation. That
may not be the ideal root-cause fix, and it merits a parallel
investigation into whether part of the async future chain should be
boxed to reduce stack pressure instead.
## What Changed
Enterprises can now pin feature values in `requirements.toml` with the
requirements-side `features` table:
```toml
[features]
personality = true
unified_exec = false
```
Only canonical feature keys are allowed in the requirements `features`
table; omitted keys remain unconstrained.
- Added a requirements-side pinned feature map to
`ConfigRequirementsToml`, threaded it through source-preserving
requirements merge and normalization in `codex-config`, and made the
TOML surface use `[features]` (while still accepting legacy
`[feature_requirements]` for compatibility).
- Exposed `featureRequirements` from `configRequirements/read`,
regenerated the JSON/TypeScript schema artifacts, and updated the
app-server README.
- Wrapped the effective feature set in `ManagedFeatures`, backed by
`ConstrainedWithSource<Features>`, and changed its API to mirror
`Constrained<T>`: `can_set(...)`, `set(...) -> ConstraintResult<()>`,
and result-returning `enable` / `disable` / `set_enabled` helpers.
- Removed the legacy-usage and bulk-map passthroughs from
`ManagedFeatures`; callers that need those behaviors now mutate a plain
`Features` value and reapply it through `set(...)`, so the constrained
wrapper remains the enforcement boundary.
- Removed the production loophole for constructing unconstrained
`ManagedFeatures`. Non-test code now creates it through the configured
feature-loading path, and `impl From<Features> for ManagedFeatures` is
restricted to `#[cfg(test)]`.
- Rejected legacy feature aliases in enterprise feature requirements,
and return a load error when a pinned combination cannot survive
dependency normalization.
- Validated config writes against enterprise feature requirements before
persisting changes, including explicit conflicting writes and
profile-specific feature states that normalize into invalid
combinations.
- Updated runtime and TUI feature-toggle paths to use the constrained
setter API and to persist or apply the effective post-constraint value
rather than the requested value.
- Updated the `core_test_support` Bazel target to include the bundled
core model-catalog fixtures in its runtime data, so helper code that
resolves `core/models.json` through runfiles works in remote Bazel test
environments.
- Renamed the core config test coverage to emphasize that effective
feature values are normalized at runtime, while conflicting persisted
config writes are rejected.
- Ran `compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` inside
an explicit 8 MiB test thread and Tokio runtime worker stack, following
the existing larger-stack integration-test pattern, to keep the Windows
`compact_resume_fork` test slice from aborting while a parallel
investigation continues into whether some of the underlying async
futures should be boxed.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-config`
- `cargo test -p codex-core feature_requirements_ -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
load_requirements_toml_produces_expected_constraints -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core compact_resume_fork -- --nocapture`
- Re-ran the built `codex-core` `tests/all` binary with
`RUST_MIN_STACK=262144` for
`compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history` to confirm
the explicit-stack harness fixes the deterministic low-stack repro.
- `cargo test -p codex-core`
- This still fails locally in unrelated integration areas that expect
the `codex` / `test_stdio_server` binaries or hit existing `search_tool`
wiremock mismatches.
## Docs
`developers.openai.com/codex` should document the requirements-side
`[features]` table for enterprise and MDM-managed configuration,
including that it only accepts canonical feature keys and that
conflicting config writes are rejected.
## Why
`codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` re-exported a broad set of types and modules
from `codex-protocol` and `codex-shell-command`. That made it easy for
workspace crates to import those APIs through `codex-core`, which in
turn hides dependency edges and makes it harder to reduce compile-time
coupling over time.
This change removes those public re-exports so call sites must import
from the source crates directly. Even when a crate still depends on
`codex-core` today, this makes dependency boundaries explicit and
unblocks future work to drop `codex-core` dependencies where possible.
## What Changed
- Removed public re-exports from `codex-rs/core/src/lib.rs` for:
- `codex_protocol::protocol` and related protocol/model types (including
`InitialHistory`)
- `codex_protocol::config_types` (`protocol_config_types`)
- `codex_shell_command::{bash, is_dangerous_command, is_safe_command,
parse_command, powershell}`
- Migrated workspace Rust call sites to import directly from:
- `codex_protocol::protocol`
- `codex_protocol::config_types`
- `codex_protocol::models`
- `codex_shell_command`
- Added explicit `Cargo.toml` dependencies (`codex-protocol` /
`codex-shell-command`) in crates that now import those crates directly.
- Kept `codex-core` internal modules compiling by using `pub(crate)`
aliases in `core/src/lib.rs` (internal-only, not part of the public
API).
- Updated the two utility crates that can already drop a `codex-core`
dependency edge entirely:
- `codex-utils-approval-presets`
- `codex-utils-cli`
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-utils-approval-presets`
- `cargo test -p codex-utils-cli`
- `cargo check --workspace --all-targets`
- `just clippy`
## Why
We currently carry multiple permission-related concepts directly on
`Config` for shell/unified-exec behavior (`approval_policy`,
`sandbox_policy`, `network`, `shell_environment_policy`,
`windows_sandbox_mode`).
Consolidating these into one in-memory struct makes permission handling
easier to reason about and sets up the next step: supporting named
permission profiles (`[permissions.PROFILE_NAME]`) without changing
behavior now.
This change is mostly mechanical: it updates existing callsites to go
through `config.permissions`, but it does not yet refactor those
callsites to take a single `Permissions` value in places where multiple
permission fields are still threaded separately.
This PR intentionally **does not** change the on-disk `config.toml`
format yet and keeps compatibility with legacy config keys.
## What Changed
- Introduced `Permissions` in `core/src/config/mod.rs`.
- Added `Config::permissions` and moved effective runtime permission
fields under it:
- `approval_policy`
- `sandbox_policy`
- `network`
- `shell_environment_policy`
- `windows_sandbox_mode`
- Updated config loading/building so these effective values are still
derived from the same existing config inputs and constraints.
- Updated Windows sandbox helpers/resolution to read/write via
`permissions`.
- Threaded the new field through all permission consumers across core
runtime, app-server, CLI/exec, TUI, and sandbox summary code.
- Updated affected tests to reference `config.permissions.*`.
- Renamed the struct/field from
`EffectivePermissions`/`effective_permissions` to
`Permissions`/`permissions` and aligned variable naming accordingly.
## Verification
- `just fix -p codex-core -p codex-tui -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server
-p codex-exec -p codex-utils-sandbox-summary`
- `cargo build -p codex-core -p codex-tui -p codex-cli -p
codex-app-server -p codex-exec -p codex-utils-sandbox-summary`
`SandboxPolicy::ReadOnly` previously implied broad read access and could
not express a narrower read surface.
This change introduces an explicit read-access model so we can support
user-configurable read restrictions in follow-up work, while preserving
current behavior today.
It also ensures unsupported backends fail closed for restricted-read
policies instead of silently granting broader access than intended.
## What
- Added `ReadOnlyAccess` in protocol with:
- `Restricted { include_platform_defaults, readable_roots }`
- `FullAccess`
- Updated `SandboxPolicy` to carry read-access configuration:
- `ReadOnly { access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- `WorkspaceWrite { ..., read_only_access: ReadOnlyAccess }`
- Preserved existing behavior by defaulting current construction paths
to `ReadOnlyAccess::FullAccess`.
- Threaded the new fields through sandbox policy consumers and call
sites across `core`, `tui`, `linux-sandbox`, `windows-sandbox`, and
related tests.
- Updated Seatbelt policy generation to honor restricted read roots by
emitting scoped read rules when full read access is not granted.
- Added fail-closed behavior on Linux and Windows backends when
restricted read access is requested but not yet implemented there
(`UnsupportedOperation`).
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema and TypeScript artifacts,
including `ReadOnlyAccess`.
## Compatibility / rollout
- Runtime behavior remains unchanged by default (`FullAccess`).
- API/schema changes are in place so future config wiring can enable
restricted read access without another policy-shape migration.
This adds support for `allowed_sandbox_modes` in `requirements.toml` and
provides legacy support for constraining sandbox modes in
`managed_config.toml`. This is converted to `Constrained<SandboxPolicy>`
in `ConfigRequirements` and applied to `Config` such that constraints
are enforced throughout the harness.
Note that, because `managed_config.toml` is deprecated, we do not add
support for the new `external-sandbox` variant recently introduced in
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8290. As noted, that variant is not
supported in `config.toml` today, but can be configured programmatically
via app server.
helpful in the future if we want more granularity for requesting
escalated permissions:
e.g when running in readonly sandbox, model can request to escalate to a
sandbox that allows writes
## Summary
- update documentation, example configs, and automation defaults to
reference gpt-5.1 / gpt-5.1-codex
- bump the CLI and core configuration defaults, model presets, and error
messaging to the new models while keeping the model-family/tool coverage
for legacy slugs
- refresh tests, fixtures, and TUI snapshots so they expect the upgraded
defaults
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core
config::tests::test_precedence_fixture_with_gpt5_profile`
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